| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: representatives. There were in all 1,200 deputies, of whom 578
were of the Third Estate, consisting chiefly of magistrates,
advocates, and physicians. Of the 300 deputies of the clergy,
200, of plebeian origin, threw in their lot with the Third Estate
against the nobility and clergy.
From the first sessions a psychological conflict broke out
between the deputies of different social conditions and
(therefore) different mentalities. The magnificent costumes of
the privileged deputies contrasted in a humiliating fashion with
the sombre fashions of the Third Estate.
At the first session the members of the nobility and the clergy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: of any man's money without giving him a quid pro rata for it. I've
always managed to leave a customer some little gewgaw to paste in his
scrapbook or stick between his Seth Thomas clock and the wall after we
are through trading.
"There was one time I came near having to break this rule of mine and
do a profligate and illaudable action, but I was saved from it by the
laws and statutes of our great and profitable country.
"One summer me and Andy Tucker, my partner, went to New York to lay in
our annual assortment of clothes and gents' furnishings. We was always
pompous and regardless dressers, finding that looks went further than
anything else in our business, except maybe our knowledge of railroad
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: the measureless age of the fragments, and Freeborn found traces
of symbols which fitted darkly into certain Papuan and Polynesian
legends of infinite antiquity. The condition and scattering of
the blocks told mutely of vertiginous cycles of time and geologic
upheavals of cosmic savagery.
We had an aëroplane with us, and
my son Wingate would often go up to different heights and scan
the sand-and-rock waste for signs of dim, large-scale outlines
- either differences of level or trails of scattered blocks. His
results were virtually negative; for whenever he would one day
think he had glimpsed some significant trend, he would on his
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